Scrolling long folder names in Mailboxes pane

Is there a way to horizontally scroll long folder names? I have several folders with long names and deep sub-folder hierarchies. Stretching the Mailboxes pane and then selecting the folder and hiding the pane to get back screen real estate works but gets tiresome.
Thanks in advance, John
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

I apologize. I was unclear in my description of my new problem. I have some users using Mail.app and others using Entourage. I've encountered the "file too large" problem with Entourage users. For the record, I'm using the backup program iBackup. In the log file it creates, it states that the Entourage database file is too large.
For example, one person has a 2.6GB Entourage database file. iBackup will start copying and get to around 2GB, maybe 2.1 or 2.2. It will then appear to quickly finish. Looking in the backup folder on the server, it shows the entirety of the Office 2004 Identities folder to be 96KB....
Is this some sort of weird limitation on the part of Windows Server 2003 and how it deals with communication from Macs, or is it just an issue with iBackup? I have copied much larger files using iBackup to back up to a locally-attached Firewire hard drive successfully, so I am leaning towards a strange Windows Server issue.
Thanks for any input!

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